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STEEL TUBE & PIPE CONF: Energy’s future bright: TMK Ipsco chairman
February 08, 2012 - 23:10 GMT
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Houston
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tube
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TMK Ipsco
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Piotr Galitzine
The long-term outlook for the energy tubulars market is largely positive, TMK Ipsco’s top executive said this week, shrugging off softening natural gas prices and talk of "peak oil."
Dismissing the notion of "peak oil" as a "cockamamie theory," Galitzine argued that new technologies such as horizontal drilling and promising plays offshore in the Arctic—"even way offshore"—are expected to keep new supplies of oil and gas flowing. Still, in as few as 10 years, given increasing demand, people might be saying, "Boy, wasn’t it nice when oil was only $100 a barrel," he said.
That’s in part because over the past decade, 75 percent of all new oil discoveries have been consumed by Asia and 50 percent by China alone, Galitzine said, adding that 75,000 people are being added to the middle class in India every day. "That’s the population of Chicago land—6 million people a quarter joining the middle class—and of course, they need heat, energy,...
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